Australians Seeing Fire Balls Claimed To Be Fast Launching Meteors In The Night Sky, Here's The Fact!

JAKARTA - The South Australian Sky was suddenly treated to a fireball show. Many claim this is a meteor but it turns out that only Russian rockets were destroyed, aka space debris.

The remnants of the launch of the Russian rocket that re-entered Earth's atmosphere were detected on Monday, August 7, resulting in fireballs and sonic explosions that rocked houses across Victoria, Australia.

The day after the incident, the Australian Space Agency confirmed it was the third phase of the Soyuz rocket launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Moscow on Monday night, which puts the new global Glonass navigation satellite into orbit.

The space agency said Russian authorities had notified earlier about the launch. Meanwhile, parts of the surviving rocket are planned to safely re-enter the atmosphere towards the northeastern sea of Tasmania.

"We will continue to monitor the results of this re-entry with our government partners," the Australian Space Agency said.

Associate Professor Alice Gorman of Flinders University explained, the rocket weighs 105 tons, is 25 meters long and launched at a very high altitude after its fuel runs out.

Many Melbournens saw rockets streak across the sky as pieces broke, each continuing to light up in spectacular fireworks performances, Gorman said.

It is known, this is not the first time the Soyuz rocket stage has entered Australia. In May 2020, identical rockets from the launch of military satellites from Plesetsk were also seen burning in the atmosphere, as quoted by The Guardian, Wednesday, August 9.